Climate change: permission to act
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.569815.47 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Editorials

	The economics of tackling climate change
	Ian Roberts
	BMJ  2008;336:165-166, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.596262.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Aspirin resistance in cardiovascular disease
	Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Marzia Lotrionte
	BMJ  2008;336:166-167, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39405.635498.80, (Published 17 January 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Cannabinoids for chronic pain
	Steven P Cohen
	BMJ  2008;336:167-168, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39434.444583.80, (Published 8 January 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Costs of treating malaria according to test results
	Zeno Bisoffi, Jef Van den Ende
	BMJ  2008;336:168-169, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39401.486655.80, (Published 16 January 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mandatory disclosure of trial results for drugs and devices
	Trish Groves
	BMJ  2008;336:170, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.465139.80 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	A fixed dilated pupil: Pilocarpine: better than a scan
	Fion D Bremner
	BMJ  2008;336:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.496204.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety in health care: Legal impediments
	Name and address supplied
	BMJ  2008;336:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.506389.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Safety in health care: Research on safety is happening
	Rhona Flin
	BMJ  2008;336:171, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.481829.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Preventing flu-like illness: Reason for optimism
	Peter Doshi
	BMJ  2008;336:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.484421.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home haemodialysis: UK nephrology misunderstood
	Charles R V Tomson
	BMJ  2008;336:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.462396.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home haemodialysis: Missing facts, different countries
	David Ansell
	BMJ  2008;336:172, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.485972.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Home haemodialysis: Author’s reply
	Christopher R Blagg
	BMJ  2008;336:172-173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.500602.BE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heroin prescription to misusers: Treat patients, not communities
	Andrew J Ashworth
	BMJ  2008;336:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.512373.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heroin prescription to misusers: Prejudice based medicine?
	Roger Weeks
	BMJ  2008;336:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.509884.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Heroin prescription to misusers: Treat addicts, not the addiction
	Peter O’Loughlin
	BMJ  2008;336:173, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.474792.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Kurjak plagiarism case: Scientific misconduct in Croatia
	Matko Marusic
	BMJ  2008;336:173-174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.666748.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The Kurjak plagiarism case: Croatia is let down
	Harvey Marcovitch
	BMJ  2008;336:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39450.661528.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The treatment paradox: The interpretation of evidence
	Peter G Davies
	BMJ  2008;336:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.493090.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The treatment paradox: Not necessarily ...
	Norman R Williams
	BMJ  2008;336:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.508634.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The treatment paradox: Most get nothing
	Michael Samarkos
	BMJ  2008;336:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.473368.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The treatment paradox: Not treating, delaying
	Malcolm Kendrick
	BMJ  2008;336:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.479988.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The treatment paradox: Pills in the sky
	L Sam Lewis
	BMJ  2008;336:174, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.477373.3A [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Cutting child mortality by half by 2015 is "still possible," says Unicef
	John Zarocostas
	BMJ  2008;336:175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.399792.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Appoint tsar to improve dementia services, says watchdog
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  2008;336:175, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.439387.4E [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	US Congress and European Research Council insist on open access to research results
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2008;336:176-177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.592280.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	FDA approves use of cloned animals for food
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2008;336:176, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.528368.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Campaign is launched to protect health facilities from disasters
	Peter Moszynski
	BMJ  2008;336:176-177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39464.686678.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	UK regulatory body approves research using human-animal hybrid embryos
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:177, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.639873.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2008;336:178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.647569.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drinking declines and smoking reaches all time low in Great Britain
	Henry Creagh
	BMJ  2008;336:178, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.453056.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NHS sets up unit to reduce carbon emissions in health service
	Henry Creagh
	BMJ  2008;336:178-179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.467106.C2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	NICE urges planners to consider people’s need for exercise
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2008;336:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.447002.26 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	MPs criticise government for taking MRC money needed for new research centre
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:179, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.733912.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Royal colleges admit some responsibility for recruitment chaos
	Adrian O’Dowd
	BMJ  2008;336:180, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.432303.C2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Unreported cholesterol drug data released by company
	Jeanne Lenzer
	BMJ  2008;336:180-181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.610775.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Row breaks out over German plan to test law on assisted suicide
	Ned Stafford
	BMJ  2008;336:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.463356.DB [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Looking at muscle disease
	Annabel Ferriman
	BMJ  2008;336:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.485093.C2 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GP charges in Ireland deter patients
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2008;336:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39467.410440.C2 [Extract] [Full text]

	GPs and primary care trusts are given advice on commissioning
	Geoff Watts
	BMJ  2008;336:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.498137.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	MPs call on health minister to halt closure of hospital for personality disorders
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2008;336:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.655845.DB [Extract] [Full text]

	Trust deficits will be wiped out by end of next financial year, NHS chief predicts
	Andrew Cole
	BMJ  2008;336:181, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.517130.DB [Extract] [Full text]

Short cuts

	All you need to read in the other general journals
	BMJ  2008;336:182-183, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39465.409051.80 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Head to Head

	Are condoms the answer to rising rates of non-HIV sexually transmitted infections? Yes
	Markus J Steiner, Willard Cates
	BMJ  2008;336:184, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39402.488727.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Are condoms the answer to rising rates of non-HIV sexually transmitted infection? No
	Stephen J Genuis
	BMJ  2008;336:185, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39402.527766.AD, (Published 26 January 2008) [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Feature

	Patient safety: Safer by design
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2008;336:186-188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39426.511759.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Observations

	Border Crossing: Olympic challenges
	Tessa Richards
	BMJ  2008;336:189, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.630741.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Ethics Man: How far would you go?
	Daniel K Sokol
	BMJ  2008;336:190, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.616736.0F [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Analysis

	Global environmental change and health: impacts, inequalities, and the health sector
	A J McMichael, S Friel, A Nyong, C Corvalan
	BMJ  2008;336:191-194, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39392.473727.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research

	Aspirin "resistance" and risk of cardiovascular morbidity: systematic review and meta-analysis
	George Krasopoulos, Stephanie J Brister, W Scott Beattie, Michael R Buchanan
	BMJ  2008;336:195-198, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39430.529549.BE, (Published 17 January 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references] FREE

	Comparison of analgesic effects and patient tolerability of nabilone and dihydrocodeine for chronic neuropathic pain: randomised, crossover, double blind study
	B Frank, M G Serpell, J Hughes, J N S Matthews, D Kapur
	BMJ  2008;336:199-201, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39429.619653.80, (Published 8 January 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	The impact of response to the results of diagnostic tests for malaria: cost-benefit analysis
	Yoel Lubell, Hugh Reyburn, Hilda Mbakilwa, Rose Mwangi, Semkini Chonya, Christopher J M Whitty, Anne Mills
	BMJ  2008;336:202-205, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39395.696065.47, (Published 16 January 2008) [Abstract] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Clinical review

	Benign prostatic hyperplasia. Part 2—Management
	Timothy J Wilt, James N’Dow
	BMJ  2008;336:206-210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39433.670718.AD [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Practice

	Pregnancy Plus: Chronic kidney disease in pregnancy
	David Williams, John Davison
	BMJ  2008;336:211-215, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39406.652986.BE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Web references]

	Change Page: Patients with suspected rheumatoid arthritis should be referred early to rheumatology
	Kimme L Hyrich
	BMJ  2008;336:215-216, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39381.597454.AE [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	10-Minute Consultation: Smoking cessation
	Kate E Koplan, Sean P David, Nancy A Rigotti
	BMJ  2008;336:217, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39248.531748.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Views & reviews

	Personal View: Safety and the flying doctor
	Francesco P Cappuccio, Steven W Lockley
	BMJ  2008;336:218, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.659051.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Review of the Week: No hard feelings
	Margaret McCartney
	BMJ  2008;336:219, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.456227.0F [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	From the Frontline: Goodbye and thanks
	Des Spence
	BMJ  2008;336:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.723310.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Past Caring: All together now
	Wendy Moore
	BMJ  2008;336:220, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.453738.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Between the Lines: A decline in crime
	Theodore Dalrymple
	BMJ  2008;336:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.735648.47 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Medical Classics: Fabrica
	John Beard
	BMJ  2008;336:221, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39414.420880.59 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	BMJ  2008;336:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39464.581505.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	K Catford, S Hanfield Jones, R Lakshman
	BMJ  2008;336:224, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39464.570104.47 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	My most informative mistake
	Lampis C Stavrinou
	BMJ  2008;336:188, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39388.571852.AD [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Health promotion: From clinic to classroom
	Janesh Kumar Gupta
	BMJ  2008;336:210, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39370.699977.DE [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Energy expenditure in adolescents playing new generation computer games
	BMJ  2008;336, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39469.677685.AD [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Stephen Edward Smith
	Caroline Richmond
	BMJ  2008;336:222, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39468.286539.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	William Anthony Campbell Dow
	Thomas Campbell Dow
	BMJ  2008;336:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39462.688322.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Peter Flamank
	Martin Flamank
	BMJ  2008;336:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39461.700035.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Dudley Fairman Heath
	Michael Hickman
	BMJ  2008;336:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39462.675324.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Gunter Holti
	Anne Cullen, Richard Holti, Poppy Martin
	BMJ  2008;336:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39462.722616.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Alistair David McIntosh
	G Ewan McIntosh
	BMJ  2008;336:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39462.710116.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Philip Lawrence Robinson
	John A Aitken
	BMJ  2008;336:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39462.663287.BE [Extract] [Full text]

	Gavin Brown Shaw
	Tom Drysdale
	BMJ  2008;336:223, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39461.678634.BE [Extract] [Full text]

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